Artis Apelleae : liber hic, studiosa juventus, aptata ingenio fert rudimenta tuo : hos duce carpe viam, membratim tota figura discitur, his gradibus scandere ad alta dabit
Artis Apelleae is a 1650 drawing manual published in Amsterdam by Nicolaus Visscher, compiled from the work of Abraham Bloemaert and his son Frederick for art students learning to draw the head. The pages show sheets of separate studies of heads, faces and hands in pencil-like pen and ink, each framed and numbered. A designer could take from them the compact study of character types, from elderly bearded men to women in headdresses, as a model for figure construction and expression.
